People Need to Be Treated with Respect

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People Need to be Treated With Respect Everyone needs and deserves respect. Respect is a basic human need. We all crave respect and we all should give respect. The Golden rule, Due unto others as you would have done unto you, is perfect example of respect. This famous saying means treat others as you would want to be treated. Or in other words respect everyone. In this paper the importance of treating people with respect no matter what their situation in life might be, will be discussed. This will be done with examples from the book Flowers for Algernon, the book Born to Run, The movie Forest Gump, my own life experience and a sample from history. Flowers for Algernon is a great book. There is a man in this story who is mentally challenged. He has an IQ of 68 and does not understand many people. His name is Charlie Gordon; he lives in New York City and works at a place called Donner’s Bakery. Joe, Frank and George are some men that work with him. They belittled Charlie every chance they could get. An expression they often say is “hey look at Joe, Frank or George, really pulled a Charlie Gordon” (Keyes pg.354). They say many mean things like that about Charlie all of the time. They used Charlie as reference for most of their jokes. These men were not the brightest, but they are smarter than Charlie. They feel that because they were smarter than Charlie that they have the right to pick on him. Joe, Frank and George often took advantage of Charlie by making him do stupid things he did not understand (Keyes, 2010). “Everybody laughed and we had a good time… they gave me lots of drinks and Joe said Charlie is a card when he’s potted… Every body likes me” (Keyes pg. 356). This phrase from the book shows that Joe, Frank and George and possibly others have no respect or sympathy for Charlie. Charlie does not realize this. He thinks they are his friends. He does not

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